Exam 10: The Muscular System

What muscle is primarily responsible for preventing foot drop?

Figure 10.3Using Figure 10.3, match the following: -An elderly woman, with extensive osteoarthritis of her left hip joint, entered the hospital to have a total hip joint replacement (prosthesis implantation). After surgery, her left hip had to be maintained in abduction to prevent dislocation of the prosthesis while healing was occurring. Physical therapy was prescribed to prevent atrophy of the adductor muscles during the interval of disuse. Name the adductor muscles and describe the action of each that was being prevented while the hip was adducted.

is a powerful forearm extensor.

Figure 10.3Using Figure 10.3, match the following: -Rotates scapula.

Which generalization concerning movement by skeletal muscles is not true?

Figure 10.1Using Figure 10.1, match the following: -The action of lifting a shovel of snow.

In order to propel food down to the esophagus, the pharyngeal constrictor muscles are used.

Which of the following muscles does not act in plantar flexion?

Spasms of this straplike muscle often result in wryneck or torticollis.

The arrangement of a muscle's fascicles determines its range of motion and power.

Damage to the ischiocavernosus muscle would have what effect?

Which muscle group is involved when a "pulled groin" occurs?

A muscle that opposes, or reverses, a particular movement is a(n) .

What type of muscle assists an agonist by causing a like movement or by stabilizing a joint over which an agonist acts?

Figure 10.3Using Figure 10.3, match the following: -Levator scapulae.

Figure 10.2Using Figure 10.2, match the following: -A woman mentions to her friend that another person on the beach has "great abs." What is she talking about?

The muscle that prevents the biting of the cheek when chewing is the buccinator.

A cute, little curly- haired child is sitting behind you in church. You turn around for a moment and she sticks her tongue out at you. Which tongue muscle did she use?

What do the genioglossus, hyoglossus, and styloglossus muscles have in common?

Figure 10.2Using Figure 10.2, match the following: -Deltoid